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AVEL DE KNIGHT (1921 - 1996)
The Fall
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Casein on board, 1977. 191x184 mm; 7
1
/
2
x7
1
/
4
inches (tondo). Signed in casein, lower left recto.
Signed, titled, and dated in ink, verso.
Provenance: private collection, New Jersey.
NewYork City native Avel De Knight began his artistic career as an art critic for the
France-Amerique
from 1958 to 1968 and taught at the Brooklyn Museum School of Art beginning in 1969. His art
training was in Paris at the École des Beaux-Arts, Académie de la Grande Chaumière and the
Académie Julian. De Knight became well known for his surreal landscapes and abstraction which
gained him membership to the National Academy of Design and the AmericanWatercolor Society.
His work is found in the collections of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, National Academy of
Design,The Chrysler Museum of Art, Schomberg Center for Research in Black Culture, Springfield
Art Museum and the Robert Hull Fleming Museum.
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